13-letter words containing s, o, l, e, t, c
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- smooth muscle — involuntary muscle tissue in the walls of viscera and blood vessels, consisting of nonstriated, spindle-shaped cells.
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
- sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
- staff college — a training centre for executive military personnel
- state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
- state college — a city in central Pennsylvania.
- state control — government ownership
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- stereological — of, relating to, stereology
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
- strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
- subadolescent — younger than or not quite adolescent
- subcollection — the act of collecting.
- subcollegiate — of, relating to, or characteristic of subcollege students or a subcollege
- sublanceolate — (of leaves, etc) almost spear-shaped
- suction valve — a nonreturn valve in a pump suction to prevent the pump draining or depriming when not in service
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- suspercollate — to hang
- technologised — to make technological; to modernize or modify with technology.
- tectosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- tektosilicate — any silicate in which each tetrahedral group shares all its oxygen atoms with neighboring groups, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being 1 to 2.
- teledildonics — a technology supposedly enabling two or more people to engage in sexual activity remotely
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- the carolinas — North Carolina and South Carolina
- the consulate — the consular government of France from 1799 to 1804
- the holocaust — the systematic, genocidal destruction of over six million European Jews by the Nazis before and during WWII
- thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- to lose touch — If you lose touch with someone, you gradually stop writing, telephoning, or visiting them.
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
- treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
- truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
- ugly customer — a hostile or dangerous person.
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- uncontestable — a race, conflict, or other competition between rivals, as for a prize.
- uncourtliness — the lack of courtliness
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- velvet scoter — a European sea duck, Melanitta fusca, the male of which has a black plumage with white patches below the eyes and on the wings
- violoncellist — cellist.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet